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Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:51:22 -0800
From: "Chris Anderson" <jchris@gmail.com>
To: user@couchdb.apache.org
Subject: Re: General Q about CouchDB
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On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Christopher McComas
<mccomas.chris@gmail.com> wrote:
> Would it be wrong to try to do the category piece as related in CouchDB?
> What would be the best way to do it, so that you can have a page,
> myblog.com/categories/this-category/ that'd then display all the entries for
> that category? What would be proper?

Having a category field on the blog post itself is a fine way to do this.

Eg:

{
"title":"Blah",
"author":"Chris",
"category":"music",
"date": ...
}

Writing a view that sorts posts by category and date would be simple
with this sort of data structure. Of course if you wanted to rename a
category later you'd need to touch all the documents that listed it,
so this solution is more like tagging than categories, but should
fulfill the need.


-- 
Chris Anderson
http://jchris.mfdz.com